Some of you may be aware of the Billy Sheehan Yamaha Attitude bass model (about $2,600 USD street price at the time of this writing) and have wondered what the benefit of having two outputs on a bass has. As Billy explains in the video below, a lot of it has to do with amp … Read more
This is a bass inspired by the video game League of Legends. Very nice construction throughout. Builder Yvan Monfette from Monfette Guitars writes: This bass is inspired by the very popular computer game “League of Legends”. In fact, it is inspired by one of its characters : Yorick. This character uses a crazy-looking bass to … Read more
Aston Barrett, nicknamed “Family Man” (even before he had children,) is a Fender Jazz Bass player who plays reggae music. Amazingly, he is able to get an incredible upright sound out of the Fender J: Aston is known to use a custom flatwound set of strings. He has said in an interview that custom sizing … Read more
The feature bass this week is a very nice take on a headless design with 36 frets, all stainless! (Note: There is a video below the images so you can hear what it sounds like.) Owner Rod Jost writes: I own a Steinberger headless bass and love the design. I love graphite carbon fiber necks. … Read more
Above is all the BOTW features for 2017! Have you submitted your bass for a 2018 feature? You can download the above image here. Alternative download location is here.
The feature bass this week is a custom build by Upgreader Guitars. Owner Dmitry Budko writes: My name is Dmitry. I play a band called Weesp. We play progressive atmospheric alternative metal with a lot of analog synth and clean vocals. I experiment with low tunings so prefer multiscale basses. For the previous two albums … Read more
The feature bass this week features a very nice 5 piece ash construction. Builder Adil Sabit writes: One of my models which called “J Bass” I had the honor to present to your attention in 2014. It was selected by you as the Bass of the week. I’m full of gratitude to you to this … Read more
The feature bass this week is a mid-1980s vintage. Owner Ken Mattholie writes: I was looking for fretless bass that sounded great being the first criteria and also looked different from all the other fretlesses. A lot being copies of Jaco’s and I certainly don’t play that way. It tends to be driven or overdriven … Read more
In the video below, Mark King (you know him from the band Level 42) explains that the main reason he has to literally strap tape across his pedals is because he has big cheesy feet. Mark said this, not us. 🙂 However, this begs the question of whether pedals for bassists are really designed right … Read more
The feature bass this week has the builder’s stamp of approval on it. Literally. Builder Bryon Suter writes: I named this bass guitar “Swamp”. It’s ash, but not swamp ash. The guitar was commissioned and I was unsatisfied with the way the color turned out. I stopped the build, built a new body for the … Read more
